Though they were successful in completing the ritual (apparently wounding him), the group was beaten when some of the Guardian's old friends decided to attempt to reason with him instead of slaying him. Deciding action had to be taken, Annaeus devised a Ritual of Purification, and assembled a large group of wizards and priests to attack the King of Shadows. When they returned from the woods it was discovered that the King of Shadows had magically fused the six into one tortured creature.
The six Silken Sisters attacked him in a forest, but were severely beaten. Some Illefarn citizens came to fear this new incarnation of their Guardian, and sought to kill him before he could turn on his allies, even though he had made no attempt to do so. Therefore, he turned to the Shadow Weave, a dark magic source governed by Shar that turned him into a creature of darkness. Even after the goddess had been resurrected as Mystra, the King was unable to draw upon his old power. This caused the tie between the Weave and the Guardian to be shattered, and Netheril's floating cities to fall from the skies. However, when the wizard Karsus killed Mystryl, then-goddess of magic, via the spell Karsus's avatar, all magic ceased to function for a time. When the ritual had passed, the man had lost all traces of his former self he was now known as "the Guardian," a perfect weapon with only two goals: to protect Illefarn and destroy its enemies.įearing this Guardian, even Netheril dared not attack Illefarn, and so the empires co-existed for a time. After he was selected out of all the candidates, the King underwent a 100-day long, extremely painful ritual in which Annaeus merged the man with the Weave.
Fiercely patriotic to his homeland, the Second Illefarn empire, the King was one of the hundred who answered the call by the priest Annaeus to sacrifice himself to become a weapon against Illefarn's enemies: the orc tribes to the north, and Netheril to the east. Not much is known about the King's early days, save that he was a talented human magic user who was trained for twenty years by the elf Master Isym in the arcane arts.
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